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[edit] North Shields

Your recent contribution(s) to the Wikipedia article North Shields are very much appreciated. However, you did not provide references or sources for your information. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a drive to improve the quality of Wikipedia by encouraging editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. If sources are left unreferenced, it may count as original research, which is not allowed. Can you provide in the article specific references to any books, articles, websites or other reliable sources that will allow people to verify the content in the article? You can use a citation method listed at How to cite sources. Thanks!

— superbfc [ talk | cont ] — 21:09, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Regarding article North Shields and your comments. I am fairly new to Wikipedia, especially to amending articles. I have placed a source reference on the North Shields article. Is that what you had in mind? Please let me know if it is not.
Dposte46 18:41, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
That's okay - it is preferred to be slightly more robust about referencing though. That is, statements and paragraphs need to indicate from which source they are derived. Sorry to be vain enough to use "my own" article as an example, but take a look at Holy Trinity, Sunderland to see what I mean. However, a lot of articles in Wikipedia just have a source placed at the end like yours, but in practice this is not good, as a lot of sources may be used to construct an article, and it is ideal to know exactly how each source is used. I'll have a go at showing in the North Shields article how to reference your submission. Read the advice above on referencing for a better explanation.
— superbfc [ talk | cont ] — 19:56, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Hi, just thought I'd say I'm impressed by this new article. I hope you don't mind, but I've suggested it for a future Did You Know column on the main page - if you'd like to change the proposed entry, it can be found here. Thanks, and keep up the good work! Bob talk 20:57, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello! I noticed you often edit articles which relate to North East England so we at WikiProject North East England, would like to invite you to become a member of the WikiProject. We work on creating, expanding a making general changes to North East England related articles. If you would be interested in joining feel free to visit the Project Page.

Bob talk 21:14, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar
Great work on the Hostmen article  — superbfc [ talk | cont ] — 22:23, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 30 June 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 12:28, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re-Keelmen

Hi, that's a good point, I've changed it to Category:History of Tyne and Wear. Bob talk 16:21, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sorted History of Newcastle upon Tyne

Hi, don't worry, it was just a small / missing in one of the references that did it. Incidentally, anybody can revert back to any version in the article history, which is useful if somebody makes an edit to an article you don't think is very good, etc. Bob talk 21:03, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK nom

Hi - I saw this article and I was going to nominate it for DYK but it only had one ref and no pics. I have added some more refs but its still short of a picture. At a quick glance they may think he was using a traction engine so a diagram and a photo would be portrait. Do you know where there is a "free" one? Anyway and nonetheless .. hope you like the nom.

Re. image. He died in 1864. If you have a photo/scan of him or of a painting/drawing that was done in his lifetime then its out of copyright. The law is 70 years after authors death. People mark these as copyright but only out of laziness. It also has to be a "true image", ie if I put a moustache or the mona lisa then its my image and I own it. Hope that helps. Victuallers 20:00, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] William Jessop

Good work on William Jessop. Remember to cite where possible. Hmallett 17:58, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On November 2, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Fowler (agricultural engineer), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 00:59, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:John Fowler002.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:John Fowler002.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 18:31, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Matthew Murray

You have substaially expanded the above article. Have you used additional sources? If so, could you please cite them? I am not questioning your work, except that it will be incomplete without references (assuming there are others). Peterkingiron 17:56, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

On second thoughts, I think the above comment may be misplaced. I had missed the citation of Rolt. Peterkingiron 18:01, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Newcastle town wall

Hi Dposte46, I'm planning on expanding the Newcastle town wall article a little further, and hopefully get it to Good Article status. I noticed you expanded the article considerably a while back, including references for some of the info. There are some bits which are unreferenced though, and I was wondering if it would be possible for you to add further refs for them. I'm thinking mainly the last three paragraphs of the "Construction" section and the bit about the merchants' houses in Close. Ideally, book references should cite page numbers, but I don't think that is a requirement for GA, so might not be necessary. Anyway, i'd appreciate any help with this. Cheers, Dbam Talk/Contributions 22:16, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Dbam Talk/Contributions 20:49, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
In fact, I've just noticed your edits to the article, that's quick work! Again, thanks. Dbam Talk/Contributions 20:57, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Robert de Mowbray

Hello Dposte46, I saw you've added a lot of text to that biography. I saw too you used oxforddnb.com as a source. I wrote Montbray's article for the french wiki, but with not so reliable source, so could it be possible for you to send me that DNB's article thru mail ? Thanks in advance ! Regards, PurpleHz (talk) 01:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I wrongly thought it was possible to send attachments thru Special:Emailuser/PurpleHz. You can obtain my e-mail address by adding @gmail.com to my username (sorry, i don't want to write it in plain text). Thanks again ! PurpleHz (talk) 13:51, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Newcastle town wall GA review

Hello, just to let you know (if you don't already) that Newcastle town wall has received a Good Article review. Some of the points raised concern text that was added by yourself and I was hoping you could have a look if you have a moment. The review can be found at the article's talk page and will be in place for a week from today before it is passed or failed. As before, any help will be appreciated, thanks. Dbam Talk/Contributions 21:06, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much, that's a massive help and very much appreciated, cheers. Dbam Talk/Contributions 16:25, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cooper's Lonsdale belts

Thanks for picking up on my mistake. Cooper did indeed win them outright. Thanks, 'Arry Boy (talk) 16:29, 9 March 2008 (UTC)